Gucci Mane, shown here performing at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, is one of the performers topping the new All My Friends festival in downtown Los Angeles. (File photo by Micah Escamilla)

The two-day event, set for Aug. 18 and 19 at new space Row DTLA, will feature hip-hop, R&B and electronic dance music performers.

The lineup for Saturday, Aug. 18, includes trap and bass producer RL Grime, who just did a surprise DJ set at the Do Lab at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s first weekend, rapper Gucci Mane and R&B singer Jhené Aiko. Topping the bill on Sunday, Aug. 19, will be rapper M.I.A., Jamie xx, the DJ for the popular band The xx, and DJ and producer Armand Van Helden.

Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Whether you are a Coachella lifer or prefer to watch from afar, get weekly dispatches during the Southern California music festival season. Subscribe here.

More performers will be announced for the event in the coming weeks. The festival is the first big venture for Gary Richards (aka Destructo), since he became the President of LiveStyle North America.

Richards founded Hard events, including the popular Hard Summer festival, and the Holy Ship! EDM cruise. Those events are now run by Live Nation.

Vanessa Franko is the Digital Director of Entertainment for the Southern California News Group. The lure of palm trees and covering pop culture brought her to The Press-Enterprise in Riverside in 2006. Vanessa has reported on everything from the Palm Springs International Film Festival to the MLB All-Star Game as a reporter, photographer, videographer and on-camera personality. She's won awards for her coverage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and for crime reporting in her home state of Maryland. Vanessa studied multimedia storytelling as a Knight Digital Media Center fellow in Dec. 2011 and has taught college courses in digital journalism. She's seen shows at every major concert venue in Southern California, but most special was when Paul McCartney played the high-desert roadhouse Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown for a couple hundred fans in Oct. 2016. Her album collection numbers in the thousands (including a couple hundred on vinyl) and when she isn't hunting for records, she and her husband like to check out the best in Southern California craft beer and watch sports. She also had a cameo in the 1992 Atlanta Braves highlight film, Lightning Strikes Twice!